Illustrator vs Freehand?
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- znort
For years, I have been a freehand user, but also I have illustrator knowledge. Nowadays, because I am living in the USA I am trying to become proficient in illustrator. As I keep trying to draw a vector portrait (just like I had done so many times in freehand), illustrator starts to respond slower and slower...just because of bunch of paths...there are lots of other difficulties I experienced in illustrator such as:
- In freehand past inside command is awesomely easy to use (just cut and paste), but in illustrator, to make a clipping mask requires more steps (or not? may be I don't know yet).
-In freehand you can assign short cut keys to copy and paste attributes and then you can just press the key(copies attributes) and select another object and press the paste attributes key, done. Is there a fast way to do this in illustrator?
So what do you think people? Are these problems caused by my lack of knowledge or freehand is better? Don't get me wrong, I don't know the answer either....
- GreedoLives0
command + b = paste behind
command + f = past in frontnever used freehand, so not sure if that's what you're looking for, but that pastes something right on top or behind of what you have selected. and when you copy something, it automatically copies all the attributes it has with it, so that shouldn't be an issue.
- jonnyquest0
never used freehand myself... so i can draw no comparisons...
but hold down the conrol key in Illy while selecting something and you'll get that intuitive pop-up menu off the cursuor that allows you to do all the things that seem to be bothering you...
couple quick shorcuts
shift+command+] = Bring to frontshift+command+[ = Send to back
command+] = Bring Forward
command+[ = Send Backward
- Jude_smith0
I would of thought freehands days are numbered seeing that it's a macromedia program having been bought out by adobe. When was the last version of freehand released anyway?
- trev0
copy/paste attributes
you'll have to select the object you want attributes applied to
then use the EyeDropper tool [i] and click on the source object.(double click it to set what the EyeDropper picks up)
- ********0
I have been using illustrator since v6, and had never used freehand until a studio I freelanced at a few months ago used it for most of their layouts.
Freehand is a bit more of an all rounder than Ill. You can have multiple pages and align object to page which ill cannot do. There are some other features that i liked, but freehand doesn't use cmd plus and minus for zoom, which is crazy as all adobe apps , quark and flash do, which is strange seeing flash is a macromedia product.
Work in illustrator, the pathfinder is better, type is easier to set, and it won't be discontinued like freehand inevitably will.
- ********0
"..and align object to page which ill cannot do. "
uhm, yes, illy does that.
- ********0
please explain
- jno0
I have a plugin at work that give Illustrator pages like in FH. But it pretty useless since I make most things in InDesign if it have multiple pages
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touché
- ********0
I still use FH, mainly because it allows you to have multiple pages of different sizes, which is great for business card + letterheads + envelopes, etc
- Mick0
Hopefully some of the freehand features that people love will make it into illustrator when the two become one.
Freellustrator?